promnesia
nounUS /pɹɑmˈniː.ʒə/ · UK /pɹɒmˈniː.ʒə/
Etymology Coined by philologist and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901) from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “pre-, before”) + μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) + -ία (-ía) on the model of amnesia, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, mind”). Compare Greek προμνησία (promnisía).
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Human sciences, Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Sciences Neologism Déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.
- Related terms
- amnesia